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Feb 21, 2023
02/23
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Jochen Hung; Jaroslav Ira; Judit Klement; Andrew Tompkins; Jan Hansen; Juan Luis Simal; Sylvain Lesage
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The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic...
Topics: HBJD, HBLH, HBLL, HBLW, HBTB, HIS010000, HIS010020, HIS037040, HIS037050, HIS037060, HIS037070,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323
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May 26, 2022
05/22
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William St Clair
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In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and...
Topics: 1DVG, 1QDT, HBLL, ARC005020, HIS042000, DF287.P3, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion, History,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0136
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Sep 10, 2021
09/21
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Esther-Miriam Wagner
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Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic. Extant texts display a proximity to the vernacular that cannot be encountered in any other surviving historical Arabic material, and thus provide unprecedented access to Arabic language history. This rich material remains very little explored. Traditionally, scholarship on Arabic has focussed overwhelmingly on the literature of the various Golden Ages between the 8th and 13th...
Topics: CFF, CFP, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ7624, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0208
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Sep 12, 2013
09/13
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Jonathan Kemp
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Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber’s Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the genderisation of its representation, The Penetrated Male offers new understandings of passivity, suggesting that the modern masculine subject is predicated on a...
Topics: JFSK, LIT004160, 5PSG, DSB, JBSJ, gay life, gender studies, masculinity, queer theory, sexuality
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0047.1.00
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Oct 23, 2020
10/20
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Ekkehard Kopp
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Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads the reader towards aspects of current mathematical research. The book explains how conceptual hurdles in the development of numbers and number systems were overcome in the course of history, from Babylon to Classical Greece, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and so to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
Topics: PB, PBK, YQM, MAT000000, MAT015000, MAT027000, QA21, Mathematics, Textbooks and Learning Guides,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0236
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Dec 15, 2021
12/21
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Martin Paul Eve
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When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly research book about this underground...
Topics: JFD, JKVK, UBW, COM060040, COM079010, JBCT1, JKVM, UBJ, computing, hacking, history, internet...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0339.1.00
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Jan 7, 2016
01/16
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Michael Betancourt
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Anything that can be automated, will be. The “magic” that digital technology has brought us — self-driving cars, Bitcoin, high frequency trading, internet of things, social networking, mass surveillance, the 2009 housing bubble — has not been considered ideologically. The Critique of Digital Capitalism identifies how digital technology has captured contemporary society in a reification of capitalist priorities. The theory proposed in this book is the description of how digital...
Topics: KCP, BUS029000, POL023000, UBJ, digital capitalism, economics, media, networks, technology
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0125.1.00
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May 7, 2012
05/12
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
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Animal, Mineral, Vegetable examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through a careful examination of medieval, early modern and contemporary lifeworlds, these essays collectively argue against ecological anthropocentricity. Sheep, wolves, camels, flowers, chairs, magnets, landscapes, refuse and gems are more than mere objects. They act; they withdraw; they make demands; they connect within lively networks that might foster a new humanism, or that might...
Topics: JFC, NAT010000, PHI005000, cultural studies, materialism, object-oriented ontology, posthumanism,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0006.1.00
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Jul 14, 2022
07/22
by
Roy Christopher
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The physical body has often been seen as a prison, as something to be escaped by any means necessary: technology, mechanization, drugs and sensory deprivation, alien abduction, Rapture, or even death and extinction. Taking in horror movies from David Cronenberg and UFO encounters, metal bands such as Godflesh, ketamine experiments, AI, and cybernetics, Escape Philosophy is an exploration of the ways that human beings have sought to make this escape, to transcend the limits of the human body, to...
Topics: AVGT, HPJ, MUS019000, PHI015000, 6HA, QDTJ, black metal, body horror, Goldflesh, philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0416.1.00
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May 13, 2015
05/15
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A.W. Strouse
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In the world of My Gay Middle Ages, Chaucer and Boethius are the secret-sharers of A.W. Strouse’s “gay lifestyle.” Where many scholars of the Middle Ages would “get in from behind” on cultural history, Strouse instead does a “reach around.” He eschews academic “queer theory” as yet another tedious, normative framework, and writes in the long, fruity tradition of irresponsible, homo-medievalism (a lineage that includes luminaries like Oscar Wilde, who was sustained by his...
Topics: BM, gay life, medievalism, memoir, Middle Ages, prose poetry
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0101.1.00
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Jan 7, 2021
01/21
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Christopher Webster
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This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continued to practice as photographers throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich. The volume explores, through...
Topics: AJ, AJB, AP, JFC, PHO007000, SOC024000, TR73, European Studies, European Studies: German Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0202
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Oct 9, 2017
10/17
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Said Saddiki
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"We’re going to build a wall.” Borders have been drawn since the beginning of time, but in recent years artificial barriers have become increasingly significant to the political conversation across the world. Donald Trump was elected President of the United States while promising to build a wall on the Mexico border, and in Europe, the international movements of migrants and refugees have sparked fierce discussion about whether and how countries should restrict access to their...
Topics: JFFN, JPS, POL011000, POL012000, POL037000, SOC007000, JV6225, Economics, Politics and Sociology,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0121
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May 19, 2022
05/22
by
Elliot C. Mason
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Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture brings together the forefronts of Black Studies and architectural theory. Only recently, architecture and urban planning have started to confront their constitution of race as a social referent, and their part in the establishment of racist logics. This confrontation usually results in projects that respond to their surroundings, that merge into a changing and multicultural city. Building Black, however, proposes the construction of a Black...
Topics: AMVD, JFSL3, ARC010000, SOC056000, 5PBD, JBSL, antiracism, architecture, Black studies, race, urban...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0372.1.00
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Jul 25, 2022
07/22
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Jan M. Ziolkowski
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In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts. Part one contextualises Our Lady’s Tumbler, a French poem of the late 1230s, by comparing it with episodes in the Bible and miracles in a wide variety of medieval European sources. It relates this material to analogues and folklore across the ages from, among others, Persian, Jewish and...
Topics: ACK, D, JFHF, LIT011000, LIT022000, LIT025040, PQ1534.T5, European Studies: French Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0284
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Sep 27, 2013
09/13
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Jose Maria Sison
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This book is titled after the world-renowned poem of Jose Maria Sison, “The Guerrilla Is Like a Poet,” which celebrates with natural imagery and in a lyrical way the Filipino people’s revolutionary struggle for national liberation and democracy against foreign and feudal oppression and exploitation. The book contains poems from Sison’s Prison and Beyond, which won the Southeast Asia WRITE Award, as well as new poems that further develop the theme of struggle for national and social...
Topics: DCF, POE009000, POL005000, Philippines, poetry, political imprisonment, revolution
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0221.1.00
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Jan 2, 2012
01/12
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Wendy Rosslyn; Alessandra Tosi
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Russian women of the nineteenth century are often thought of in their literary incarnations as the heroines of novels such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace. But their real counterparts are now becoming better understood as active contributors to Russia’s varied cultural landscape. This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia – from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia – discussing their interaction with the church and the...
Topics: 1DVUA, HBJ, HIS032000, HIS037060, SOC028000, HQ1662, European Studies, European Studies: Eastern...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0018
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Sep 3, 2020
09/20
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Marc Lafia
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The Event of Art presents, in fifty-two modular chapters and over eight hundred pages and images, the works of artist Marc Lafia. The book interweaves essays, notes, photographic archives, and a host of exhibitions wherein Lafia traverses his wide body of work and examines how his early strategies of cultural reading of photography and film, of interface, network culture, and social media, transform into an investigation of materiality itself. If his interest was once the way media becomes the...
Topics: AGC, ART006000, Algorithms, Archives, Artificial Intelligence, Cinema, Computer Networks,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0275.1.00
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May 26, 2016
05/16
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Eirini Avramopoulou; Irene Peano
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Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics asks whether, and how, it is possible to re-appropriate pornography and think through it critically and creatively for a project of liberation. In the different contributions which make up this deliberately heterogeneous collection of short, non-canonical essays, such a quest proceeds by re-articulating the aporias of desire, intimacy, touch and seduction. It also relates them to claims of visibility, visions of emancipation and its failures, as well as to the...
Topics: JFMP, SOC032000, SOC034000, cultural theory, film studies, gender studies, pornography, queer...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0141.1.00
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Apr 30, 2020
04/20
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Eva-Lynn Jagoe
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We say, you belong to me, or I belong to you. But is it possible to be possessed by others? And can we ever possess ourselves? In this raw and intimate account, Eva-Lynn Jagoe merges memoir with critical theory as she recounts the unraveling of everything she thought she knew about selfhood, relationships, and desire. Through the story of an upbringing in a patriarchal Spanish and American household, a dissociative and painful relationship towards men and power, and a chaotic marriage and...
Topics: BM, DSB, MMJT, DNC, MKMT1, auto-ethnography, feminism, identity, memoir, psychoanalysis,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0290.1.00
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Apr 16, 2019
04/19
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S.D. Chrostowska
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Through the prism of criticism, the modalities of thinking form a spectrum: on one end, systematic exposition, on the other, the fragment. It is the latter, fragmentary approach that distinguishes Matches—an investigation that does not focus on a single theme developed in all its aspects but, rather, on a constellation of themes in art, literature, philosophy, science, social and political thought, as well as the human in relation to history and nature. The author pursues here in performative...
Topics: DNF, LIT000000, DNL, GBCQ, aphorisms, epigrams, maxims, meditations, sketches
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0251.1.00
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Mar 25, 2020
03/20
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James Hutson
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In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, covering topics that were seen as central to arts education, connoisseurship, patronage, and the wider...
Topics: ABA, ACND, JHMP, ART015080, SOC002000, G35, N7570, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion, Visual...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0198
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Oct 19, 2021
10/21
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Philip S. Peek
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In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity. The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammatical concepts they will most frequently encounter when...
Topics: 2AHA, 4KL, CFP, DB, HBLA1, EDU029080, FOR033000, LIT004190, PA258, Classics, Classics: Greek...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0264
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Sep 20, 2011
09/11
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Maria Manuel Lisboa
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Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production – from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games. This book examines historical and imaginary scenarios of Apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapesin the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves effortlessly...
Topics: AP, DS, JFC, LIT004260, PER004030, PN56.E63, European Studies, Literature, Visual Arts, 1984,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0015
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Jan 19, 2023
01/23
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David Markus
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In the wake of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, considerable ink was spilled on the architecture and interior design of the buildings owned and inhabited by Donald J. Trump. In an effort to understand the inner workings of America’s first real-estate-mogul-in-chief, commentators remarked on everything from the president’s fastidious taste in window dressings to the exaggerated floor counts boasted by many Trump-branded towers. Notes on Trumpspace takes this discursive trend as a point...
Topics: AMA, JPZ, ARC001000, POL040010, KCSA, architecture criticism, contemporary art, Donald J. Trump,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0366.1.00
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Aug 24, 2022
08/22
by
William St Clair
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Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol of democracy itself’, instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how? In this book William St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview. He explores its role and meaning by weaving together a range of textual and visual...
Topics: 1DVG, HBLL, JFS, ARC005020, HIS042000, POL031000, NA281, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0279
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Feb 29, 2016
02/16
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Irina Dumitrescu
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A professor of poetry uses a deck of playing cards to measure the time until her lover returns from Afghanistan. Congolese soldiers find their loneliness reflected in the lyrics of rumba songs. Survivors of the siege of Sarajevo discuss which book they would have never burned for fuel. A Romanian political prisoner writes her memoir in her head, a book no one will ever read. These are the arts of survival in times of crisis. Rumba Under Fire proposes we think differently about what it means for...
Topics: JFC, LCO010000, LCO015000, DNL, DNP, art in crisis, crisis, cultural studies, humanities, war
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0134.1.00
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Sep 24, 2020
09/20
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Matt Rosen
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Diseases of the Head is an anthology of essays from contemporary philosophers, artists, and writers working at the crossroads of speculative philosophy and speculative horror. At once a compendium of multivocal endeavors, a breviary of supposedly illicit ponderings, and a travelogue of philosophical exploration, this collection centers itself on the place at which philosophy and horror meet. Employing rigorous analysis, incisive experimentation, and novel invention, this anthology asks about...
Topics: DSB, FK, HPJ, LIT021000, PHI013000, QDTJ, H.P. Lovecraft, literary studies, necropolitics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0280.1.00
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Jan 22, 2021
01/21
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Sergey Minov
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This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands. Produced by an unknown East Syrian Christian author during the late medieval or early modern period, this work offers a loosely organized catalogue of marvellous events, phenomena, and objects, natural as well as human-made, found throughout the world. The Marvels is a unique...
Topics: CFP, D, DF, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ5693.E5, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Literature,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0237
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Dec 18, 2019
12/19
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Rachel Armstrong
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If we lived in a liquid world, the concept of a "machine" would make no sense. Liquid life is metaphor and apparatus that discusses the consequences of thinking, working, and living through liquids. It is an irreducible, paradoxical, parallel, planetary-scale material condition, unevenly distributed spatially, but temporally continuous. It is what remains when logical explanations can no longer account for the experiences that we recognize as part of "being alive." Liquid...
Topics: HPJ, PSD, QDTJ, angelology. materialism, biology, design theory, ecology, molecular science, soft...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0246.1.00
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Feb 20, 2020
02/20
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Geoffrey Khan
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The form of Biblical Hebrew that is presented in printed editions, with vocalization and accent signs, has its origin in medieval manuscripts of the Bible. The vocalization and accent signs are notation systems that were created in Tiberias in the early Islamic period by scholars known as the Tiberian Masoretes, but the oral tradition they represent has roots in antiquity. The grammatical textbooks and reference grammars of Biblical Hebrew in use today are heirs to centuries of tradition of...
Topics: CFF, CFP, HRCG, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ4865, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0163
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Aug 8, 2014
08/14
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Alexander Doty; Patricia Clare Ingham
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Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 Swedish/Danish film Häxan (known under its English title as Witchcraft Through the Ages) has entranced, entertained, shocked, and puzzled audiences for nearly a century. The film mixes documentary with fantasy, history with theatrics, religion and science, the medieval past and modern culture. This uncanny content is compounded by the film’s formal strangeness, a mixture of quasi-documentary with fictional episodes, illustrated lectures alongside docudrama...
Topics: APFA, cultural studies, film, horror, medieval studies, witchcraft
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0074.1.00
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May 7, 2020
05/20
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Cynthia O. Ho; Kathleen W. Peters; John McClain
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Overlooking Lago di Orta in the foothills of the Northern Italian Alps, the Renaissance-era Sacro Monte di Orta (a UNESCO World Heritage site) is spectacle and hagiography, theme park and treatise. Sacro Monte di Orta is a sacred mountain complex that extolls the life of St. Francis of Assisi through fresco, statuary, and built environment. Descending from the vision of the 16th-century Archbishop Carlo Borromeo, the design and execution of the chapels express the Catholic Church’s desire to...
Topics: AMN, HRCR, HRCX8, QRVP1, QRVS5, Catholicism, Christianity, hagiography, monasticism, pilgrimage,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0283.1.00
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Nov 23, 2015
11/15
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J. David Velleman
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In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding. At the same time, he explains why the mores of different communities, even when incompatible, are still variations on the same moral themes. The book thus maps out a universe of many moral worlds...
Topics: HPQ, HPS, HR, PHI005000, BJ1500.R37, Philosophy, Textbooks and Learning Guides, Ethics, Metaethics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0086
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Apr 30, 2021
04/21
by
Gavin McDowell; Ron Naiweld; Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
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This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship. The...
Topics: CFF, CFP, JF, JFSR1, LAN009010, REL006020, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, History,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0219
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Jul 15, 2015
07/15
by
Michael L. Berger
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In the 2011 book Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, the artist Gregory Sholette posits that we are living in an era of surplus creative energies concentrated in a teeming archive of artists, the poor, the “unskilled” and the “economically invisible.” It is a potentially disruptive archive that capitalism can’t always manage but can still hope to eventually exploit and assimilate. Within this archive seethes creative energy that can extend itself in unique...
Topics: HPN, ART060000, aesthetics, art activism, disruptive collectives, mail art, manifesto
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0107.1.00
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Aug 3, 2022
08/22
by
David Torollo
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This groundbreaking new work is the first full critical edition and English translation of the Hebrew book Sefer ha-Pardes [The Book of the Orchard], written at the end of the thirteenth century by the Provençal Jewish author Jedaiah ha-Penini. It is purportedly an example of musar: a compilation of wise epigrams and meshalim [parables] that teach moral lessons on different topics, such as the service of God, friendship, the deceitfulness of the world, medicine, logic, music, magic, and...
Topics: 2CSJ, CFF, CFP, DC, DSC, FOR011000, LAN009010, POE000000, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0299
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Jun 19, 2020
06/20
by
Christine Peel; Jeffrey Love; Erik Simensen; Inger Larsson; Ulrika Djärv
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'A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law' is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of medieval Scandinavia. This polyglot dictionary draws on the vast and vibrant range of vernacular legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts – terminology which yields valuable insights into the quotidian realities of crime and retribution; the processes, application and execution of laws; and the cultural and societal concerns underlying the development and promulgation of such laws. Legal...
Topics: 1DN, 2ACS, CFM, LAF, LAQ, FOR022000, LAW000000, REF000000, REF008000, KJC544.6, L38 2020, Law,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0188
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Jan 14, 2021
01/21
by
Laurence A. Rickels
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In The Block of Fame, Edmund Bergler, like the thirteenth fairy in the “Sleeping Beauty,“ uninvited because there wasn’t an extra place setting, crashes the psychoanalytic poetics of daydreaming with a curse. He charges that the overview, according to which art making rarefies daydreaming and delivers omnipotence, overlooks the underlying defense contract. We are hooked to creativity, because it offers the best defense against acknowledging the ultimate and untenable masochistic wish to...
Topics: APFA, DSK, JMAF, LIT004260, PSY026000, ATFA, cultural studies, Edmund Bergler, fantasy, film...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0279.1.00
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Nov 26, 2015
11/15
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Jeremy Fernando
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Writing Art is an attempt to respond to the possibilities of art, the potentialities in art, to the possible event that art is. Keeping in mind that events are always already potentially beyond us, are quite possibly unknown, unknowable. In this book, Jeremy Fernando meditates on art through a response to specifics works, to the specificity of the craft, tekhnē, of each work; offering a reading of specific works of photography (Photovoice sg), poetry (Tammy Ho Lai-Ming), installation art...
Topics: ABA, literary theory
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0228.1.00
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Jun 17, 2016
06/16
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Maggie M. Williams; Karen Eileen Overbey
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This volume brings together writing and imagery from the experimental “beachwalk” session(s) at the Third Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, On the Beach: Precariousness, Risk, Forms of Life, Affinity, and Play at the Edge of the World. We began with conversations about the sea. We meditated together on chance, discovery, agency, beauty, and material ecology. We talked about the delicate care of treading the world, the confluence of the personal and the professional, and the...
Topics: AGC, ART006010, art, beach, objects, ocean, photography
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0143.1.00
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Dec 9, 2022
12/22
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Miriam Godoy Penteado; Ole Skovsmose
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Creating landscapes of investigation is a primary concern of critical mathematics education. It enables us to organise educational processes so that students and teachers are able to get involved in explorations guided by dialogical interactions. It attempts to address explicit or implicit forms of social injustice by means of mathematics, and also to promote a critical conception of mathematics, challenging the assumption that the subject represents objectivity and neutrality. Landscapes of...
Topics: JNA, JNAM, JNU, PB, PBB, YQM, EDU007000, EDU029010, EDU044000, EDU060020, MAT000000, MAT027000,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0316
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Dec 6, 2022
12/22
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Steven Jan
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Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music by Steven Jan is a comprehensive account of the relationships between evolutionary theory and music. Examining the ‘evolutionary algorithm’ that drives biological and musical-cultural evolution, the book provides a distinctive commentary on how musicality and music can shed light on our understanding of Darwin’s famous theory, and vice-versa. Comprised of seven chapters, with several musical examples, figures and definitions of terms, this...
Topics: AVA, JHMC, JMH, PSAJ, MUS006000, MUS007000, MUS015000, MUS020000, SCI027000, Performing Arts,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0301
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Dec 4, 2018
12/18
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Zairong Xiang
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Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources. In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves....
Topics: JFSK, LIT004160, LIT004190, JBSJ, NHTQ, QRRT1, Babylonian mythology, creation myths, decolonialism,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0235.1.00
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Aug 23, 2018
08/18
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Kisha G. Tracy; John P. Sexton
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Are you a Lone Medievalist? Working medievalists are often the only scholar of the Middle Ages in a department, a university, or a hundred-mile radius. While working to build a body of focused scholarly work, the lone medievalist is expected to be a generalist in the classroom and a contributing member of a campus community that rarely offers disciplinary community in return. As a result, overtasked and single medievalists often find it challenging to advocate for their work and field. As other...
Topics: DSBB, intellectual life, marginality, medieval studies, pedagogy, university studies
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0205.1.00
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Sep 5, 2022
09/22
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John Claiborne Isbell
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Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it. Discussing seminal Romantic texts such as Mary Shelley’s...
Topics: D, DS, DSBF, DSC, DSK, LIT000000, LIT004120, LIT014000, LIT024030, LIT024040, Literature, Americas,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0302
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Jul 5, 2019
07/19
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Kris Miller-Fisher; Jocelyn Gibbs
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Drawing on the vast archival resources of its Architecture and Design Collection, the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum (University of California, Santa Barbara) presents an assessment of 50 years of design by Barton Myers (b. 1934), beginning with his work in the Toronto firm A.J. Diamond and Barton Myers (1967–1975) to his own offices in Toronto and Los Angeles, Barton Myers Associates (1975–present). Myers’s strongest architectural ideas come out of the planning strategies of...
Topics: AMB, AMD, AMG, AMK, adaptive reuse, American architects, architecture, social housing, urbanism
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0249.1.00
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Sep 5, 2016
09/16
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Ingo Gildenhard; Andrew Zissos
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This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the divinity of Bacchus or allow his worship at Thebes. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic...
Topics: CFP, DB, DCF, FOR016000, LIT004190, LIT014000, POE008000, PA6519.M3, Classics, Classics: Latin...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0073
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Sep 26, 2022
09/22
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Andrew Hobbs
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Anthony Hewitson (1836-1912) was a typical Victorian journalist, working in one of the largest sectors of the periodical press, provincial newspapers. His diaries, written between 1862 and 1912, lift the veil of anonymity hiding the people, processes and networks involved in the creation of Victorian newspapers. They also tell us about Victorian fatherhood, family life, and the culture of a Victorian town. Diaries of nineteenth-century provincial journalists are extremely rare. Anthony Hewitson...
Topics: 3JH, JFD, KNTJ, HIS015060, LAN008000, SOC052000, PN5123.A77, Biography, History, Media Studies and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0262
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May 4, 2017
05/17
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Sean Braune
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Who speaks when you speak? Who writes when you write? Is it “you”—is it the “I” that you think you are? Or are we the chance inheritors of an invasive, exterior parasite—a parasite that calls itself “Being” or “Language?” If our sense of self is best defined on the basis of an exterior, parasitical force that enters us from the outside, then the “self” is no longer a centralized or agential “inside,” but rather becomes reconfigured as the result of an “outside”...
Topics: GTE, linguistics, paragrams, parasite semiotics, pataphysics, phorontology
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0169.1.00
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Apr 20, 2009
04/09
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Lionel Gossman
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Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention of decaffeinated coffee. What was it about the revolutionary climate following World War I that induced three such different personalities to collaborate in the production of a slim volume of poetry—entitled Gott in...
Topics: BG, HBJD, BIO000000, HIS014000, DD256.5, Biography, European Studies, European Studies: German...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0003
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Dec 4, 2012
12/12
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Elisabeth Ellsworth; Jamie Kruse
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Making the Geologic Now announces shifts in cultural sensibilities and practices. It offers early sightings of an increasingly widespread turn toward the geologic as source of explanation, motivation, and inspiration for creative responses to conditions of the present moment. In the spirit of a broadside, this edited collection circulates images and short essays from over 40 artists, designers, architects, scholars, and journalists who are actively exploring and creatively responding to the...
Topics: RBG, ART006010, AGC, FXE, antropocene, climate change, ecology studies, geology, geo-philosophy
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.00
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Aug 13, 2020
08/20
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Kendra Sullivan; Dylan Gauthier
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Between Species/Between Spaces assembles text and images resulting from a pilot artistic research residency hosted by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust and the Cape Cod National Seashore in Cape Cod, MA. Artists in the book reflect on the geological forces that are reshaping the landscape and ecology of the Outer Cape which illuminate and to some degree mirror the broader global dynamic of instability, loss, and transition we are facing as a result of anthropogenic climate change. The book...
Topics: AGC, RNA, ART006010, anthropocene, artistic research, art residency, contemporary art, ecology,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0325.1.00
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Jul 30, 2020
07/20
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Michael Austin; Paul J. Ennis; Thomas Gokey
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From the Editorial Introduction: "If the first volume of Speculations was enough of an explicit wager, a willing blind leap in the terra incognita of the publishing world, then this volume forces us to stop and evaluate the reasons for the journal’s protracted existence. This is all the more important when we consider how the range of meanings of the term ‘speculative realism’ seems to be growing—with increasing numbers of thinkers situating themselves in its trail, or holding a...
Topics: HPCF, object-oriented ontology, philosophy, speculative realism
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0344.1.00
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Dec 11, 2018
12/18
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Jan M. Ziolkowski
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This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life....
Topics: ACK, AMX, AVGC, D, JFHF, ARC005060, ART035000, LIT011000, LIT022000, LIT025040, PQ1534.T5, European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0149
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May 24, 2021
05/21
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Roberto Rossi
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Inventory Analytics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory and practice of inventory control – a significant research area central to supply chain planning. The book outlines the foundations of inventory systems and surveys prescriptive analytics models for deterministic inventory control. It further discusses predictive analytics techniques for demand forecasting in inventory control and also examines prescriptive analytics models for stochastic inventory control....
Topics: BUS, JHBC, K, KCA, KJ, KJMV, PBT, PBWL, BUS001010, BUS044000, BUS069030, MAT029000, TS160,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0252
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Sep 29, 2017
09/17
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Asa Simon Mittman; Thea Tomaini
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Beaches are places that give and take, bringing unexpected surprises to society, and pulling essentials away from it. Through monsters, we confront our tiny time between catastrophes and develop a recognition of Otherness by which an ethical understanding of difference becomes possible. Learning to read the monster’s environmental signs often helps humans determine the scope of the monster’s place in the eco/cosmic timeline and defeat it—until the epic cycle inevitably repeats; monsters...
Topics: RBKC, medieval studies, monster theory, ocean studies, whales, whirlpools
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0182.1.00
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Nov 13, 2017
11/17
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Louise Hardiman; Nicola Kozicharow
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In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption of Byzantine Orthodoxy centuries before – questions of religion and spirituality were of paramount importance. As artists and the wider art community experimented with new ideas and interpretations...
Topics: ABA, AFC, AG, ART035000, ART049000, N6987, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion, European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0115
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Nov 19, 2019
11/19
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JH Phrydas
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In 2008, JH Phrydas wrote a story about how bodies talk without words. He wanted the story to not just describe the silent ritual of nonverbal communication but to perform it. The interaction would be visceral – the exchange melancholic, yet full of lust. He wanted words to retain the unsayable: the subtle movements of a body in heat. In the years since, Phrydas kept rewriting this story, using different techniques, different syntaxes and forms, in hopes that he would find a successful method...
Topics: 5SG, JFSK, 5PSG, JBSJ, cruising, desire, LGBT studies, queer studies, sexuality, theory fiction,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0268.1.00
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Feb 1, 2016
02/16
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Roger Paulin
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This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to...
Topics: BG, BGL, D, DS, BIO007000, LIT004170, LIT024040, PT2503.S3, Biography, European Studies, European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0069
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Nov 7, 2016
11/16
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Eric Wilson
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If parapolitics, a branch of radical criminology that studies the interactions between public entities and clandestine agencies, is to develop as an academic discipline, then it must develop a coherent theory of aesthetics in order to successfully perform its primary function: to render perceptible extra-judicial phenomena that have hitherto resisted formal classification. Wilson offers the work of H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) as an example of the relevance of subversive literature—in this...
Topics: JPWJ, conspiracy theory, horror, H.P. Lovecraft, parapolitics, radical criminology
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0155.1.00
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Dec 2, 2021
12/21
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Marko Stamenkoviç
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esistance features a selection of overtly non-conformist positions in the contemporary visual art scene of Albania vis-à-vis the most recent social, political, and economic turmoils in the Western Balkans – a region marked by the dark side of political governances that have remained “democratic” in their outward appearance (especially toward the European Union), while dramatically leaning toward autocratic regimes in the eyes of their own citizens. Regardless of their citizens’ primary...
Topics: AGC, ART006010, ART037000, Albania, art residency, political activism, political art, protest,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0384.1.00
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Oct 8, 2013
10/13
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Lee Haring
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How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale elements link Ibonia with European folktales, but the tale is still very much a product of...
Topics: DC, JFHF, JHMC, SOC002010, SOC011000, GR357, African Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0034
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Dec 1, 2022
12/22
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Leora Fridman
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In the face of unimaginably violent systems, our most vulnerable bodies — sick, disabled, unable to rise from bed — offer the resistance of imperative vulnerability. What can we learn from the body that cannot help but fail? How can porosity perform treachery within entrenched opressions? What kind of reading and relationship to text can enrich relationship instead of inscribing boundaries between us? What does it mean to accept the unacceptable, and what kind of power becomes available...
Topics: BM, JFFH, VFJB, VFJD, BIO017000, SOC010000, DNC, JBFN, apocalypse, autotheory, body, disability,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0411.1.00
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Dec 17, 2021
12/21
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Patrick J. Keane
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Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats—widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century—this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet’s long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats’s vision of life and death. Through close reading of selected poems, the first section of Making the Void...
Topics: D, DS, DSC, LIT000000, LIT004120, LIT014000, PR5907, European Studies, European Studies: English...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0275
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Feb 8, 2018
02/18
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Jane Bliss
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This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations, into accessible and engaging modern English, are provided throughout, bringing these texts to life for a contemporary audience. The collection offers a selection of fascinating passages, and whole texts, many of...
Topics: CFP, DQ, DSBB, LCO008000, LCO017000, LIT018000, LIT025040, PR281, European Studies, European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0110
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Nov 1, 2008
11/08
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William St Clair
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When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles, start a new crusade, or make money out of a war, all felt that Greece had unique claim on the sympathy of the world. As Lord Byron wrote, "I dreamed that Greece might still be Free"; and he...
Topics: 1DVG, 3JH, HBJD, HIS037060, HIS042000, HIS054000, DF807, Biography, European Studies, History,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0001
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Dec 10, 2014
12/14
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Anthony Opal
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ACTION — as in begin, genesis, motion — is a collection of poems ultimately concerned with form, those lines drawn in the sand that give way to the profanity of the holy, the holiness of the profane. Throughout ACTION, Opal engages the constraints inherent to seemingly fixed forms. From living with rheumatoid arthritis, to feeling for the edges of a sonnet tradition, to wrestling with the tenets of historical theology, this collection demonstrates that the only way to honestly submit to a...
Topics: DCF, formalism, monarchy, poetry, sonnet, waxwings
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0083.1.00
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Sep 23, 2014
09/14
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
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Gathering into lively conversation scholars in medieval, early modern and object studies, Inhuman Nature explores the activity of the things, forces, and relations that enable, sustain and operate indifferently to us. Enamored by fictions of environmental sovereignty, we too often imagine “human” to be a solitary category of being. This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymmetrical ecologies within which we are enmeshed, a material world that makes the human possible but also...
Topics: HPCF, cultural studies, ecology, new materialisms, post-humanism, premodern studies
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0078.1.00
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Jun 24, 2016
06/16
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Herman Schwendinger; Julia Schwendinger; Jeff Shantz
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"It can't happen here." This has been the prevailing sentiment about the possible emergence of fascism in the United States since the rise of international fascism in the 1930s. Yet there are signs that it may already be happening, and at the highest levels of government... In their copiously researched and documented work the Schwendingers outline the structural transformations, policies, and practices that raise the prospect of fascist governance in the 21st Century US. They show...
Topics: 1KBB, JPFQ, POL040000, POL042030, corporatism, fascism, liberal democracy, United States
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0459.1.00
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Jan 14, 2020
01/20
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Edward Pettit
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The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond, drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image...
Topics: 2ABA, D, DSBB, LIT011000, GR950.S9, European Studies, European Studies: English and Irish Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0190
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Nov 24, 2020
11/20
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Laurence A. Rickels
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In The Contest between B-Genres, the “Space Trilogy” by J.R.R. Tolkien’s friend and colleague C.S. Lewis and the roster of American science fictions that Gotthard Günther selected and glossed for the German readership in 1952 demarcate the ring in which the contestants face off. In carrying out in fiction the joust that Tolkien proclaimed in his manifesto essay “On Fairy-Stories,” Lewis challenged the visions of travel through time and space that were the mainstays of modern science...
Topics: APFA, DSK, JMAF, LIT004260, PSY026000, ATFA, cultural studies, fantasy, film studies, Gotthard...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0278.1.00
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Nov 6, 2018
11/18
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Dorothy Kim; Jesse Stommel
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All too often, defining a discipline becomes more an exercise of exclusion than inclusion. Disrupting the Digital Humanities seeks to rethink how we map disciplinary terrain by directly confronting the gatekeeping impulse of many other so-called field-defining collections. What is most beautiful about the work of the Digital Humanities is exactly the fact that it can’t be tidily anthologized. In fact, the desire to neatly define the Digital Humanities (to filter the DH-y from the DH) is a way...
Topics: COM079000, COM079010, NHTQ, UBJ, computing, decolonization, digital humanities, social justice,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0230.1.00
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Nov 18, 2011
11/11
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Ingo Gildenhard
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Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose. This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero’s...
Topics: 4KL, CFP, HBLA1, FOR033000, HIS002020, LIT004190, PA6279.A4, Classics, Classics: Latin Textbooks,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0016
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May 26, 2017
05/17
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Christian Hite
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Coming from behind (derrière)—how else to describe a volume called “Derrida and Queer Theory”? — as if arriving late to the party, or, indeed, after the party is already over. After all, we already have Deleuze and Queer Theory and, of course, Saint Foucault. And judging by Annamarie Jagose’s Queer Theory: An Introduction, in which there is not a single mention of “Derrida” (or “deconstruction”) — even in the sub-chapter titled “The Post-Structuralist Context of Queer”...
Topics: JFSK, PHI043000, SOC064000, deconstruction, gender, Jacques Derrida, queer theory, sexuality
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0172.1.00
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Apr 17, 2018
04/18
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Manja Stephan-Emmrich; Philipp Schröder
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This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates. Illuminating translocality as a...
Topics: 1FC, JH, JHMC, JPS, RGCP, SOC002010, SOC015000, JV6121, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0114
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